Richard Kimberlee Richard.Kimberlee@uwe.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Public Health
Measuring the economic impact of the wellspring healthy living centre's social prescribing wellbeing programme for low level mental health issues encountered by GP services
Kimberlee, Richard; Jones, Matthew; Powell, Jane
Authors
Mathew Jones Matthew.Jones@uwe.ac.uk
Professor of Public Health
Jane Powell Jane.Powell@uwe.ac.uk
Professor in Public Health Economics
Abstract
This research evaluates the impacts of a holistic social prescribing Wellbeing Programme delivered by the Wellspring Healthy Living Centre, Bristol. As a holistic social prescribing approach it is representative of many third sector led interventions seeking to support local primary care services. It offers GP-referred patients 12 weeks of one-to-one support followed by 12 months of group support around a particular activity. Socio-economic impact was measured through Social Return On Investment (SROI) approach using a pre and post intervention interviews using the Wellspring Wellbeing Questionnaire tool (WWQ). Data collected using the WWQ suggests that three months after a beneficiary’s induction on the intervention beneficiaries show statistically significant improvement in: PHQ9 (p=
Report Type | Project Report |
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Publication Date | Nov 1, 2013 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 7, 2019 |
Journal | Proving our Value |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Keywords | wellbeing, mental health issues, GP services |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/926277 |
Publisher URL | http://southwestforum.org.uk/sites/default/files/sitefiles/docs/swfprovingourvalue_uwe_wellspring.pdf |
Related Public URLs | http://southwestforum.org.uk/provingourvalue |
Additional Information | Additional Information : Copyright and IP remain with South West Forum. |
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